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The Global Food Security programme has published a new horizon scanning report based on the last Science Advisory Group meeting. It highlights the latest contextual developments and research advances relevant to the food system to provide a list of top priority research questions.

The Global Food Security programme has launched a new science communication competition to equip UKRI early-stage researchers with the communication skills to propose and facilitate the necessary changes to transform our food system for health and sustainability.

This policy brief conveys five key messages for this year’s Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate change (COP24), based on the outputs of GFS’ Paris-compliant healthy food systems workshop.

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The Global Food Security programme aims to better understand how behaviour could be changed to support improved outcomes for health and sustainability, exploring the determinants of dietary choices, the win-wins and trade-offs across health and sustainability, and the mix of interventions required for change across government, business and civil society.

The Global Food Security programme aims to understand how increasingly severe extreme weather events and environmental tipping points have the potential to impact on the global food system, as well as identify approaches to prevent and mitigate these impacts.

The Global Food Security programme aims to generate evidence and support for collaborative decision-making mechanisms that would facilitate greater coordination and collaboration in national and international policy-making on food-related issues.

Third Early Career Researcher Policy Lab to understand what determines food choice, and to further understand the best combination of interventions that would be most impactful in encouraging healthier and more sustainable diets.

The GFS Science Advisory Group aims to conduct a light touch refresh of knowledge needs in food security based on recent game changing global and scientific developments, providing an up to date set of priority research questions to inform the future activity of GFS and its partners.

The GFS programme aims to understand how food provision and other ecosystem services can be delivered simultaneously on multi-functional landscapes, in the context of social and economic factors. This Policy Lab aims to understand the current state of knowledge on multi-functional landscapes in the UK, synthesise the latest evidence and develop a set of recommendations to inform future UK agricultural policy.

TempAg is a global research collaboration network established to increase the impact of agricultural research and inform policy making in the world’s temperate regions. Through its activities, TempAg enables policy makers, funding bodies, scientists, and other decision makers, to align national and transnational research agendas to allow innovations and policy interventions for sustainable agriculture in temperate zones.

The Global Food Security programme aims to understand what a future food system might look like that tackles climate change whilst also improving nutrition, exploring interventions in the food system that would help meet the Paris Climate Agreement and deliver against the SDGs.

Science communication competition to equip the next generation of UKRI researchers with the knowledge and skills to effectively communicate their research in the context of the global food security challenge.

The Global Food Security programme aims to better understand how the human gut microbiome is composed and influenced, using this insight to explore how it might be harnessed to support improved health outcomes, such as healthy weight and good nutrition.